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The full cold moon now has -5 temps under its light.\u00a0 When there’s snow on the ground and a full moon in the sky, I always think of Twas’ The Night Before Christmas:\u00a0 And the moon on the new fallen snow gave a lustre of midday to objects below.\u00a0 Writing that reminded me of a performance I gave of that poem with our high school concert band in the background.\u00a0 Scared me to death and I didn’t like it.\u00a0 Acting I loved, but performing to music–not at all.<\/p>\n
I surprised my 3 year old granddaughter last week with the news that Grandpa did modern dance in college, performing in front of an audience several times.\u00a0 My mind says yes I did, my body insists it could never have done that.\u00a0 It was fun.<\/p>\n
Obama.\u00a0 Our government.\u00a0 I have known for decades now, as have many of my contemporaries that our system of government broke down long ago.\u00a0 There are many reasons:\u00a0 money, lobbyists, an archaic method of representing voters wishes, an apathetic citizenry, the practice of the big lie.\u00a0 In the past I subscribed to the idea of radical change, a dramatic overhaul of our system, one that would replace it with, say, democratic socialism or a scheme in which the whole of Amerika broke down into smaller regional states.<\/p>\n
With the passing years I have lost my faith in radical change in two ways.\u00a0 One, I doubt the chance of creating it.\u00a0 Two, and more fundamentally, I’m not convinced that my radical change would not morph into something terrible, perhaps in a different way, but still terrible.\u00a0 I suppose this could lead to despair or reasoned apathy, but I’m not cut from that cloth.\u00a0 In a bad situation you use the tools you have and\u00a0 work for the best change you can expect.<\/p>\n
It may be that within the remaining years of my lifetime that\u00a0 the stars will align\u00a0 and dramatic change will be possible.\u00a0 I doubt it, but it could happen.\u00a0 If it does, I’m there.\u00a0 Even so, I’m not sanguine about a better world.<\/p>\n
This world, this one world, the only world we have must always be enough and not even close to enough.\u00a0 We must live in it as if it is enough; we must work for it as if it’s not even close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Cold Moon The full cold moon now has -5 temps under its light.\u00a0 When there’s snow on the ground and a full moon in the sky, I always think of Twas’ The Night Before Christmas:\u00a0 And the moon on the new fallen snow gave a lustre of midday to objects below.\u00a0 Writing that … Continue reading The lustre of mid-day<\/span>